CHICAGO, Sept. 18,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's
leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that Micro E-mini
Nasdaq-100 futures surpassed 1 billion contracts traded on
September 13.
"Our Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are among the most actively
traded equity index products at CME Group, averaging more than 1.1
million contracts per day in Q3-to-date," said Paul Woolman, Global Head of Equity Index
Products at CME Group. "At one-tenth the size of their benchmark
E-mini counterpart, these micro-sized futures allow market
participants to hedge or scale exposure with enhanced flexibility
around major market-moving events, especially those with the
potential to impact the tech-heavy sector of the Nasdaq-100."
"The Nasdaq-100 Index® is one of the world's
preeminent large-cap growth indexes capturing companies with a
legacy of innovation that create competitive advantages in their
respective markets," said Sean
Wasserman, Vice President and Global Head of Index &
Advisor Solutions at Nasdaq. "We congratulate CME Group on
achieving this milestone and celebrate our collaboration in
bringing unique products to market that provide investors with
valuable exposure to companies impacting our society and
economy."
For more information on these products, please visit
www.cmegroup.com/microeminis.
About CME Group
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash
and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering
market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and
capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range
of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading
central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of
Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York
Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York
Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity
Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec and EBS are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe
LTD and EBS Group LTD, respectively. The
Nasdaq® Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector Adjusted Market-Cap
Weighted™, and Nasdaq-100® are trademarks of Nasdaq, Inc. (which
with its affiliates is referred to as the "Corporations") and are
licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. The Product(s)
have not been passed on by the Corporations as to their legality or
suitability. The Product(s) are not issued, endorsed, sold, or
promoted by the Corporations. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO WARRANTIES
AND BEAR NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT(S).
CME-G
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